Unwrapped, Uncovered...

If you're like me, & simply love design & decorating magazines, unless you indulge yourself the time to really enjoy them, you eventually realise that the gorgeous cover on the 'latest issue' is in fact about 4 issues ago, & apart from briefly being captivated by the visual delights, that you are barely familiar with its contents! So recently I began to progressively work through each & every issue.

Across three different titles, I realised that I was being repeatedly captured by the work of UK Artist & Textile Designer, Carolyn Quartermaine. It is some time since I incorporated her beautiful fabrics into a client project, but I have since been absorbed learning of her work, current & forthcoming, on her website, as well as praising & loving one of my favourite titles,"Carolyn Quartermaine UNWRAPPED". Her fabrics are stunning & showcase such beauty in their myriad of artistic applications, that their application works effortlessly regardless of whether you apply them to a contemporary or period interior. Her palette incorporates her passion & sensitivities for whatever captivates & inspirates her, which she then applies through print, paint, texture, gilding & collage, into magnificient, unique interior stories, whether be it on canvas, fabric, furniture or walls. Her art evokes a sense of emotion, serenity, sophistication, magic, & every piece is a unique story of design & beauty...

"You have to be totally immersed in your own world, making it stronger and stronger. You can't dilute that world, or you lose its spirit and it becomes untrue..."

Carolyn Quartermaine